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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JAMES McLURE BUFORD, son of John Ragsdale and Esther Eaves Buford, is a native
of Chester District, S. C. His parents, while he was yet a child, emigrated to
Fayette County, Tenn., where he spent most of his boyhood days on the farm. In
June, 1841, having lost his father, he removed to Eufaula, Ala., and, in the
early part of 1848, entered college at Columbia, S. C., where he graduated in
December, 1850. Returning to Eufaula, he read law under his brother Jefferson
Buford, a leading attorney of Barbour County. He subsequently attended the
law-school at New Orleans, where he graduated and received his law diploma, upon
which he was admitted to the bar of Alabama in 1852. He was editor of "The
Spirit of the South," prior to and during the war, and of the same paper under
the name of "The Eufaula News," for a great portion of the time down to
November, 1874. On the first of November, 1883, he moved to Atlanta, Ga.; but in
May, 1887, returned to Alabama, and setted in Decatur, Morgan County, where he
still continues the law practice.

  Mr. Buford was united in marriage at Eufaula, June, 1859, with Mrs. M. C.
Wallace, eldest daughter of Dr. W. L. Cowan, by whom he has had eight
children—William Cowan, Carrie Eloise, Jefferson Pugh, Annie Esther, Rosa
Theresa, LeRoy Eaves, Mary Melton (now dead) and Emily Alexander. His ancestors
were of an ancient family, among whom was Margaret Buford, or Beaufort, the
mother of Kings Henry VII. and VIII.: his grandfather emigrated from England to
Virginia in the early settlement of this country, where his father was born July
5, 1779, married December 25, 1804, and settled in Chester District, South
Carolina. He had eleven children, the ninth of whom is the subject of this sketch.

  Mr. Buford has long been an elder in the Presbyterian Church—the church of his
family and forefathers.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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